Ben Connable
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Ben Connable is an American retired Marine Major, military strategist and Professor at the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School in Santa Monica, California.
Early life
Ben Connable graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder in Boulder, Colorado.[http://www.rand.org/about/people/c/connable_ben.html RAND Corporation biography] He received a master's degree in Strategic Intelligence from the American Military University and a master's degree in National Security Affairs from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He also attended the War Studies program at King's College London, where he earned a PhD
Career
He is a retired Major of the United States Marine Corps, having served in Iraq with the United States Marine Corps.[http://www.c-span.org/video/?322771-5/washington-journal-major-ben-connable-fighting-islamic-state C-Span]Ben Connable, [http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2004-05-18-connable_x.htm A Marine sees what defeatists don't ], USA Today, May 18, 2004 He now serves as Professor at the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School in Santa Monica, California. He has been published in Foreign Affairs,[http://www.foreignaffairs.com/author/ben-connable Foreign Affairs: Ben Connable] The Washington Post,Ben Connable, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/13/AR2005121301502.html The Truth On the Ground], The Washington Post, December 14, 2005 CNN,Ben Connable, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140201153408/http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2014/01/30/iraq-picture-may-not-be-as-bleak-as-it-seems/ Iraq picture may not be as bleak as it seems], CNN, January 30, 2014 USA Today, etc.
On the United States's defeat of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, he has suggested looking at the broader picture, by focusing on a national reconciliation between Sunnis, Shias and Kurds.Ben Connable, [http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/testimonies/CT400/CT418/RAND_CT418.pdf Defeating the Islamic State in Iraq: Testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee], RAND Corporation, September 2014
Bibliography
- How Insurgencies End (with Martin C. Libicki, RAND Corporation, 2010).
- Military Intelligence Fusion for Complex Operations: A New Paradigm (RAND Corporation, 2012).
- Embracing the Fog of War: Assessment and Metrics in Counterinsurgency (RAND Corporation, 2012).
- Assessing Freedom of Movement for Counterinsurgency Campaigns (RAND Corporation, 2012).
- Leveraging Development Aid to Address Root Causes in Counterinsurgency: Balancing Theory and Practice in"Hold" and "Build". (RAND Corporation, 2013).
- Modeling, Simulation, and Operations Analysis in Afghanistan and Iraq (RAND Corporation, 2014).
- Defeating the Islamic State in Iraq (RAND Corporation, 2014).
- The Future of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (with Daniel Egel, Trevor Johnston, RAND Corporation, 2023)
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Category:University of Colorado Boulder alumni
Category:Naval Postgraduate School alumni
Category:Alumni of King's College London
Category:United States Marine Corps officers